Advanced Multi Tabbed Widget For Blogger – Fully Bloggerized!

A very beautiful, attracting widget that I came across was the Multi Tabbed Widget scripted by Barelyfitz and stylized by Lawny Designs. This widget was worth sharing with all of you but it had a problem. This widget was not completely widgetized and you were not add any official blogger widgets to it unless you have their codes with you. I had carefully modified Barelyfitz and Lawny's codes to make it easily work in blogger. If you need a demo, then you can already see this widget hanging on my sidebar.

Copyrights

This Multi Tabbed widget is scripted by Barelyfitz, stylized by Lawny Designs and modified and bloggerized by My Blogging Tricks. If you wish to share this tutorial with your visitors, then kindly link to these three pages. A violation of this copyright will result in a Google Adsense and DMCA complaint. Be careful!

Add Multi Tabbed Widget to Blogger

To add this widget to your Blogger Blogs, follow these steps,

1. Go to Blogger > Layout > Edit HTML
2. Search For </head>
3. And paste this code just above it,

<!-- Tabber Widget By www.mybloggingtricks.com -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
document.write('<style type="text/css">.tabber{display:none;}<\/style>');
function tabberObj(argsObj)
{
  var arg;
  this.div = null;
  this.classMain = "tabber";
  this.classMainLive = "tabberlive";
  this.classTab = "tabbertab";
  this.classTabDefault = "tabbertabdefault";
  this.classNav = "tabbernav";
  this.classTabHide = "tabbertabhide";
  this.classNavActive = "tabberactive";
  this.titleElements = ['h2','h3','h4','h5','h6'];
  this.titleElementsStripHTML = true;
  this.removeTitle = true;
  this.addLinkId = false;
  this.linkIdFormat = '<tabberid>nav<tabnumberone>';
  for (arg in argsObj) { this[arg] = argsObj[arg]; }
  this.REclassMain = new RegExp('\\b' + this.classMain + '\\b', 'gi');
  this.REclassMainLive = new RegExp('\\b' + this.classMainLive + '\\b', 'gi');
  this.REclassTab = new RegExp('\\b' + this.classTab + '\\b', 'gi');
  this.REclassTabDefault = new RegExp('\\b' + this.classTabDefault + '\\b', 'gi');
  this.REclassTabHide = new RegExp('\\b' + this.classTabHide + '\\b', 'gi');
  this.tabs = new Array();
  if (this.div) {
    this.init(this.div);
    this.div = null;
  }
}
tabberObj.prototype.init = function(e)
{
  var
  childNodes,
  i, i2,
  t,
  defaultTab=0,
  DOM_ul,
  DOM_li,
  DOM_a,
  aId,
  headingElement;
  if (!document.getElementsByTagName) { return false; }
  if (e.id) {
    this.id = e.id;
  }
  this.tabs.length = 0;
  childNodes = e.childNodes;
  for(i=0; i < childNodes.length; i++) {
    if(childNodes[i].className &&
       childNodes[i].className.match(this.REclassTab)) {
      t = new Object();
      t.div = childNodes[i];
      this.tabs[this.tabs.length] = t;
      if (childNodes[i].className.match(this.REclassTabDefault)) {
    defaultTab = this.tabs.length-1;
      }
    }
  }
  DOM_ul = document.createElement("ul");
  DOM_ul.className = this.classNav;
  for (i=0; i < this.tabs.length; i++) {
    t = this.tabs[i];
    t.headingText = t.div.title;
    if (this.removeTitle) { t.div.title = ''; }
    if (!t.headingText) {
      for (i2=0; i2<this.titleElements.length; i2++) {
    headingElement = t.div.getElementsByTagName(this.titleElements[i2])[0];
    if (headingElement) {
      t.headingText = headingElement.innerHTML;
      if (this.titleElementsStripHTML) {
        t.headingText.replace(/<br>/gi," ");
        t.headingText = t.headingText.replace(/<[^>]+>/g,"");
      }
      break;
    }
      }
    }
    if (!t.headingText) {
      t.headingText = i + 1;
    }
    DOM_li = document.createElement("li");
    t.li = DOM_li;
    DOM_a = document.createElement("a");
    DOM_a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t.headingText));
    DOM_a.href = "javascript:void(null);";
    DOM_a.title = t.headingText;
    DOM_a.onclick = this.navClick;
    DOM_a.tabber = this;
    DOM_a.tabberIndex = i;
    if (this.addLinkId && this.linkIdFormat) {
      aId = this.linkIdFormat;
      aId = aId.replace(/<tabberid>/gi, this.id);
      aId = aId.replace(/<tabnumberzero>/gi, i);
      aId = aId.replace(/<tabnumberone>/gi, i+1);
      aId = aId.replace(/<tabtitle>/gi, t.headingText.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/gi, ''));
      DOM_a.id = aId;
    }
    DOM_li.appendChild(DOM_a);
    DOM_ul.appendChild(DOM_li);
  }
  e.insertBefore(DOM_ul, e.firstChild);
  e.className = e.className.replace(this.REclassMain, this.classMainLive);
  this.tabShow(defaultTab);
  if (typeof this.onLoad == 'function') {
    this.onLoad({tabber:this});
  }
  return this;
};
tabberObj.prototype.navClick = function(event)
{
  var
  rVal,
  a,
  self,
  tabberIndex,
  onClickArgs;
  a = this;
  if (!a.tabber) { return false; }
  self = a.tabber;
  tabberIndex = a.tabberIndex;
  a.blur();
  if (typeof self.onClick == 'function') {
    onClickArgs = {'tabber':self, 'index':tabberIndex, 'event':event};
    /* IE uses a different way to access the event object */
    if (!event) { onClickArgs.event = window.event; }
    rVal = self.onClick(onClickArgs);
    if (rVal === false) { return false; }
  }
  self.tabShow(tabberIndex);
  return false;
};
tabberObj.prototype.tabHideAll = function()
{
  var i;
  for (i = 0; i < this.tabs.length; i++) {
    this.tabHide(i);
  }
};
tabberObj.prototype.tabHide = function(tabberIndex)
{
  var div;
  if (!this.tabs[tabberIndex]) { return false; }
  div = this.tabs[tabberIndex].div;
  if (!div.className.match(this.REclassTabHide)) {
    div.className += ' ' + this.classTabHide;
  }
  this.navClearActive(tabberIndex);
  return this;
};
tabberObj.prototype.tabShow = function(tabberIndex)
{
  var div;
  if (!this.tabs[tabberIndex]) { return false; }
  this.tabHideAll();
  div = this.tabs[tabberIndex].div;
  div.className = div.className.replace(this.REclassTabHide, '');
  this.navSetActive(tabberIndex);
  if (typeof this.onTabDisplay == 'function') {
    this.onTabDisplay({'tabber':this, 'index':tabberIndex});
  }
  return this;
};
tabberObj.prototype.navSetActive = function(tabberIndex)
{
  this.tabs[tabberIndex].li.className = this.classNavActive;
  return this;
};
tabberObj.prototype.navClearActive = function(tabberIndex)
{
  this.tabs[tabberIndex].li.className = '';
  return this;
};
function tabberAutomatic(tabberArgs)
{
  var
    tempObj,
    divs,
    i;
  if (!tabberArgs) { tabberArgs = {}; }
  tempObj = new tabberObj(tabberArgs);
  divs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
  for (i=0; i < divs.length; i++) {
    if (divs[i].className &&
    divs[i].className.match(tempObj.REclassMain)) {
      tabberArgs.div = divs[i];
      divs[i].tabber = new tabberObj(tabberArgs);
    }
  }
  return this;
}
function tabberAutomaticOnLoad(tabberArgs)
{
  var oldOnLoad;
  if (!tabberArgs) { tabberArgs = {}; }
  oldOnLoad = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = function() {
      tabberAutomatic(tabberArgs);
    };
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      oldOnLoad();
      tabberAutomatic(tabberArgs);
    };
  }
}
/* Run tabberAutomaticOnload() unless the "manualStartup" option was specified */
if (typeof tabberOptions == 'undefined') {
    tabberAutomaticOnLoad();
} else {
  if (!tabberOptions['manualStartup']) {
    tabberAutomaticOnLoad(tabberOptions);
  }
}
//]]>
</script>

     4. Now search for ]]></b:skin>  and just above it paste this code,

/*---------- Tabber Start by www.mybloggingtricks.com -------- */

.tabberlive{
    margin:0;
    padding:5px;
    clear:both;
    background:#f8f8f8;
    border:1px solid #DDD;
}
.tabbernav {
    margin:0;
    padding: 3px 0;
    font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
    font-size:12px;
    font-weight:bold;
}
.tabbernav li {
    list-style:none;
    margin:0;
    display:inline;
}
.tabbernav li a {
    padding:6px 0.5em;
    margin-right:1px;
    border:1px solid #DDD;
    border-bottom:none;
    background:#0084ce;
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#ffffff;
}
.tabbernav li a:hover {
    color:#fff;
    background:#333;
    border:1px solid #DDD;
    text-decoration:none;
    -webkit-transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
    -ms-transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
    transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
}
.tabbernav li.tabberactive a, .tabbernav li.tabberactive a:hover {
    background:#333;
    color:#fff;
    border-bottom: 0px solid #ffffff;
}
.tabberlive .tabbertab {
    padding:5px;
    border:0px solid #DDD;
    border-top:0;
    background:#ffffff;
}
.tabberlive .tabbertab h2,
    .tabberlive .tabbertabhide {
    display:none;
}
.tabbertab .widget-content ul{
    list-style:none;
    margin:0 0 10px 0;
    padding:0;
}
.tabbertab .widget-content li {
    border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;
    padding:2px 0 5px 0;
}


/*------- Tabber End--------*/

     5. Now comes the final part. Search for <div id='sidebar-wrapper'> closing </div> and paste this code just above as shown in the image,

<div style='clear:both;'/>
<div class='tabber'>
<b:section class='tabbertab' id='tab1' maxwidgets='1'/>
<b:section class='tabbertab' id='tab2' maxwidgets='1'/>
<b:section class='tabbertab' id='tab3' maxwidgets='1'/>
<b:section class='tabbertab' id='tab4' maxwidgets='1'/>
</div>

• If you want only three tabs, then deleted the highlighted code.

     6. Now finally save your template. Visit the Layout to add widgets to the tabs! It will look something like this,


The widgets are arranged number wise. Starting from Tab-1 and ending at Tab-4. To add a gadget/widget to any tab simply click the link Add a Gadget and start adding whatever you want.

     7. Finally view your template to see it hanging! :)

Reposition the Multi Tab Widget

In this part of the post, we will discuss how to change the position of this Multi Tabbed widget.

Changing Position:
 
To shift this tabber widget to the extreme top of the sidebar rather at the bottom section do this,

• Paste the code in Step#5 just above <div id='sidebar-wrapper'> 

• Save your template and go to Layout > Page Elements  to see if it has shifted to the top.

Need any Help?

Every template being coded differently makes it difficult for people to understand the last steps who aren't familiar with HTML. But don't worry if you aren't being able to add this code to your template because if you are then then just email me your template at slimshady1070@gmail.com and I will just add the widget for you. Plus I will also teach you to add an extra tab whenever you want and I will also stylize the Tabber widget according to your template.

But please note that this help is for MBT subscribers only! If you haven’t availed the opportunity of becoming a MBT reader then kindly subscribe here to avail unlimited resources.

I would love to know about your precious views on this widget. I hope this eye catching widget will help really a lot in giving a neat and clean touch to your blogs. Any question is welcomed. Peace and blessings buddies :>